Universality of equilibration dynamics after quantum quenches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21313v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:19:57 GMT
• Title: Universality of equilibration dynamics after quantum quenches
• Authors: Vincenzo Alba, Sanam Azarnia, Gianluca Lagnese, Federico Rottoli,
• Abstract summary: We show that in an appropriate scaling limit the lower part of the entanglement spectrum exhibits universality''<n>We benchmark our analytical results in free-fermion chains, such as the transverse field Ising chain and the XX chain, in the rule 54 chain, and in Bethe ansatz solvable spin models.
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• Abstract: We investigate the distribution of the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix (entanglement spectrum) after a global quantum quench. We show that in an appropriate scaling limit the lower part of the entanglement spectrum exhibits ``universality''. In the scaling limit and at asymptotically long times the distribution of the entanglement spectrum depends on two parameters that can be determined from the Rényi entropies. We show that two typical scenarios occur. In the first one, the distribution of the entanglement spectrum levels is similar to the one describing the ground-state entanglement spectrum in Conformal Field Theories. In the second scenario, the lower levels of the entanglement spectrum are highly degenerate and their distribution is given by a series of Dirac deltas. We benchmark our analytical results in free-fermion chains, such as the transverse field Ising chain and the XX chain, in the rule 54 chain, and in Bethe ansatz solvable spin models.

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